[
UK
/klˈaʊd/
]
[ US /ˈkɫaʊd/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫaʊd/ ]
NOUN
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a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French -
out of touch with reality
his head was in the clouds - a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
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suspicion affecting your reputation
after that mistake he was under a cloud -
a group of many things in the air or on the ground
it discharged a cloud of spores
a swarm of insects obscured the light
clouds of blossoms
VERB
-
make less clear
the stroke clouded memories of her youth -
make milky or dull
The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added -
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
sully someone's reputation -
make gloomy or depressed
Their faces were clouded with sadness - colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
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billow up in the form of a cloud
The smoke clouded above the houses -
make less visible or unclear
the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley
The stars are obscured by the clouds -
make overcast or cloudy
Fall weather often overcasts our beaches
How To Use cloud In A Sentence
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- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- The storm was cloaked like a hidden monster behind a stratiform cloud veil (nimbostratus) with a little fractus in the foreground.
- There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
- The forecasts have been asking us to watch out for thunderclouds and thundershowers for a long while now.
- The sky began to clear and there were puffy white clouds forming as the evening faded away.
- By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
- Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.
- The fact that I first met it as part of a pavlova didn't help: the deep clouds of snow-white sugar-cake need a fruit with a sting in its tail (the Antipodeans are bang on with their inclusion of passion fruit) if the dessert isn't to cloy. Tender delights
- The only cloud on the immediate horizon is raising a mortgage - especially if you are a first time buyer.